Meet Woodland Park Zoo's own 'Legion of Boom'

AUBREY COHE, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

By AUBREY COHEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Published 10:16 am, Friday, January 31, 2014

Small-clawed otters huddle around a football in their exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

Small-clawed otters huddle around a football in their exhibit at...

A small-clawed otter carries a football across a pool in its exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

A small-clawed otter carries a football across a pool in its...

A small-clawed otter gains yardage as he moves a football in its exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

A small-clawed otter gains yardage as he moves a football in its...

Small-clawed otters moves a football in their exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

Small-clawed otters moves a football in their exhibit at Woodland...

Small-clawed otters moves a football in their exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

Small-clawed otters moves a football in their exhibit at Woodland...

Cortez, a Humboldt penguin at Woodland Park Zoo, waves the 12th Man flag in his exhibit as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

A Woodland Park Zoo gray wolf reacts as a football bursts after he bit into the pigskin in the wolf exhibit. The zoo got into the Seahawks spirit as animals played with footballs and waved the 12th Man flag. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

A Woodland Park Zoo gray wolf reacts as a football bursts after he...

Meerkats form a defensive line as they examine a football in their exhibit as the Woodland Park Zoo got into the Seahawks spirit. Animals played with footballs and waved the 12th Man flag. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

Meerkats form a defensive line as they examine a football in their...

Woodland Park Zoo gray wolves pass a football in the wolf exhibit. The zoo got into the Seahawks spirit as animals played with footballs and waved the 12th Man flag. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

Woodland Park Zoo gray wolves pass a football in the wolf exhibit....

A lemur guards a banana-smeared football in the lemur exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

A lemur guards a banana-smeared football in the lemur exhibit at...

A Woodland Park Zoo gray wolf uses his teeth to rip the laces off a football in the wolf exhibit. The zoo got into the Seahawks spirit as animals played with footballs and waved the 12th Man flag. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

A Woodland Park Zoo gray wolf uses his teeth to rip the laces off a...

River otters wrestle for a loose football in their exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

River otters wrestle for a loose football in their exhibit at...

A Humboldt penguin chases a loose football in the penguin enclosure at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

A Humboldt penguin chases a loose football in the penguin enclosure...

A Woodland Park Zoo gray wolf looks as if he's ready to hike a football the wolf exhibit. The zoo got into the Seahawks spirit as animals played with footballs and waved the 12th Man flag. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

A Woodland Park Zoo gray wolf looks as if he's ready to hike a...

Cortez, a Humboldt penguin at Woodland Park Zoo, waves the 12th Man flag in his exhibit as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

Woodland Park Zoo gray wolves carry a football in the wolf exhibit. The zoo got into the Seahawks spirit as animals played with footballs and waved the 12th Man flag. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

Woodland Park Zoo gray wolves carry a football in the wolf exhibit....

A lemur leaps as he defends a banana-smeared football in the lemur exhibit at Woodland Park Zoo as the zoo gets into the Seahawks spirit. Photographed on Thursday, January 16, 2014.
Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO, SEATTLEPI.COM

And, like Richard Sherman, they back up that talk with action. In the gallery above, after images of the otters and other zoo animals showing their 12th Man spirit, check out video of the otters "playing defense in their Bamboo Forest Reserve exhibit, blocking crows left and right."